Science This content area page is for science. Check out some activities, reading within science, resources, and ways to differentiate within Science!
High Interest Activities:
High School Science Fair - Designing a project is like a real world job assignment. Students will use skills they have learned throughout their education to research a question or problem, develop solutions, design a test and present findings.
Interactive Simulations - These could be for pre-teaching, extension, differentiation, etc. PhET The Interactive Library This website has interactives for Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Earth and Space Science
Make science interesting and relevant with current events. Relate to literacy by finding 3 key ideas, summarize, and write a science 'tweet'.
Changing the Ecosystem - Close read to find the main idea and 5 ideas that support it, illustrate the passage, multiple choice questions, and time line connections/summarize..
This article, Seven Literacy Strategies That Work, is by Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Williams. They share the effectiveness and examples of hos to use Read Aloud, K-W-L charts, graphic organizers, vocabulary instruction, writing to learn, structured note taking, and reciprocal teaching.
Before Reading: students share their prior knowledge, provide background informaiton, preview the text
During Reading: monitor comprehension, teach how to take notes and visuals
After Reading: summarize, discuss the text Reading Comprehension
Reading a Primary Source/Complex Text - Find 5 words that are difficult for you to understand, determine central idea
Literacy Partners in the Science Classroom
Literacy in Science: Word Clouds - This can be used as a pre-teaching activity. Students can anticipate what reading is going to be about, main idea, and pick out a weird word they don't know - engages students and pikes curiosity.
Resources:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/science/ - A great website that uses current topics based on content from New York Times, relevant to students. After you choose an article there are sample writing/discussion questions and other materials.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/ - This website has a list of science topics across the top to choose from. Once a topic is chosen there are photos, articles and videos related to that topic. You need to create an account to access this site, but it is free!
http://scienceworld.scholastic.com - Science World is a Scholastic magazine for grades 6-10. Each month you can see some of the articles in the magazine. If you want complete access to the magazine and teaching resources you have to purchase a hard copy or electronic subscription.
Differentiation:
When students are working in groups, strategically plan for students with the lowest ability to share first so they have something to contribute to the group.
This content area page is for science. Check out some activities, reading within science, resources, and ways to differentiate within Science!
High Interest Activities:
PhET
The Interactive Library This website has interactives for Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Earth and Space
Science
Reading Within Disciplinary Area:
During Reading: monitor comprehension, teach how to take notes and visuals
After Reading: summarize, discuss the text
Reading Comprehension
Resources:
Differentiation:
Differentiated Insctruction - Scholastic